We ♥ web applications!

Mobalean is lead by Henri Servomaa, the original founder and mobile developer.
At Mobalean we strive to develop services which are loved by our clients and users.
By working in an agile manner, quickly adapting to changing requirements,
we can deliver quickly and often.

Henri Servomaa

Hailing from Finland, Henri has a long history with computers and the internet.
With a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he has worked
in Japan as Software Developer and System Admin since 2001. In 2005, he joined a
company to develop mobile sites for the Japanese market and has been involved in mobile ever since.

Cleve Lendon

Cleve is a Canadian engineer. He came to Tokyo in 1994, and has lived here ever since.
He has broad experience as a software developer, which includes development of mainframe software,
Internet applications and mobile apps (Android and iOS).
He is especially skilled at writing Java applications (vd. Simredo 4, Grafikilo 15).
When not programming, Cleve enjoys improv acting and studying languages, such as Latin and Esperanto.

Mobalean Alumni

Paul McMahon and Michael Reinsch were co-founders of Mobalean. They have moved to Doorkeeper KK, a company they established in 2013. Both are now actively developing the doorkeeper platform.

Web Development

Our strength is crafting web services for both Japanese and international markets.
We bring our technical and cultural experience to help you adapt your ideas into successful products.

We develop with Ruby on Rails and use the best agile practices and tools,
such as test driven development and continuous integration to achieve quality.

Japanese Mobile Consulting

We are the leading provider of technical expertise about the Japanese mobile web.
Our
Keitai Web Technology Guide is a great starting point for learning
about the challenges of Japanese mobile development. Developers can find more technical
details in our Ketai-Dev Wiki.

The text wasn't even truncated despite looking almost twice the length! This is because the truncate method uses the number of characters, and some characters in Japanese take up twice the space as others.

Another problem with server side truncating is that it doesn’t allow for responsive design, where you want to dynamically adjust the width of the text based on the browser side.

Luckily, there is a better way to do this by adding the following CSS to the element we want to truncate:

white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;

This works like the following:

Step 1: The base element

Step 2: Add white-space: nowrap

Step 3: Add overflow: hidden

Step 4: Add text-overflow: ellipsis

Using this method, the truncation is based on the space the text takes up, instead of the number of characters in the string, so it is always perfectly truncated to fill up the space.